There appear to be many options close by.
One suggestion was to try load testing the app in the real hosting environment to get an idea on what you can realistically take.
“Want to teach college students Rails/Pairing in a Software Engineering class?”
Write an email to Rob. Details to follow soon.
“How do I set the type of a Backbone class to not always be “child”?”
You can rename the constructor, it’s going to have that name. Don’t forget to call the constructor of the super class in it.
“Is there any tool to run Jasmine tests in several windows/browsers in parallel?”
Let us know.
The CSS property ‘box-sizing’ allows you to control the width of an element, including its border and padding.
box-sizing: content-box;
is the default setting, where the width specifies the width of only the content
box-sizing: border-box;
specifies the width for both the content, and the border and padding
box-sizing: inherit;
have a wild guess.
Technically sold out, but if you just stick around after work, you can still attend.
Capybara is reporting “stale elements” for no good reason.
Any experience, war stories upgrading from jQuery 1.6 to 1.7, especially with the whole event delegation API change? [crickets] See interestings…
Have a really big spec file that takes a long time to run? http://rubygems.org/gems/parallel_split_test, from our own Michael Grosser, will run a big spec file in smaller chunks.
url helpers cache results for better performance, but they seem to be losing custom options (in this case a locales setting).
In jQuery 1.6, triggering an event in an unattached DOM node would propagate the event up into the document, even though it was never attached to it. jQuery 1.7 (maybe 1.7.1) fixes this behavior.
render "_foo_bar.haml"
will pass cause both of these to pass:
should render_template "_foo_bar.haml" should render_template "_bar.haml"
The best solution presented was to explicitly say what you expect not to be rendered(should_not render_template “_bar.haml”). There has been some activity on Github recently around ActionController’s assert_template method, but none addressing this exact problem(1 example: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/3879/files). The regex is complicated by the fact that it has to match ambiguous partials rendered with specific paths(should render_template “_bar.haml” needs to match render “foo/_bar.haml”).
Let It Be: If you declare a “let!” variable at the top of a file, and redeclare that variable with a “let” statement in a nested context, the variable will not be lazily loaded. RSpec evaluates it as a “let!”.
Binary Tempfiles: There is no way to open a new Tempfile in binary mode; you must open it first and then call foo.binmode.
Airbrake was acquired by Exceptional
http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/07/exceptional-acquires-error-tracking-application-airbrake/
Auto compiling SASS, pre-3.0: Adam used ‘compass watch’ and Foreman to automate the regeneration of stylesheets in development. This prevents him from having to wait for the sass to recompile on the first request he makes after modifying stylesheets. https://github.com/ddollar/foreman
Should receive, in any order: Ian & Suman were attempting to write an RSpec 1.3 spec that asserted a method was called with an array that included the correct elements; however, the order of the elements within the array was not important. Seems there is no array_including equivalent to hash_including. The solution they came to was to use the block style expectation as defined here: https://www.relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/docs/argument-matchers
foo.should_receive(:bar) do |arg1|
arg1.should =~ [3,1,2]
end
Anyone know of a built-in matcher for arrays similar to hash_including?
“How can I know all the descendants of a class in the superclass at load time in ruby? I want to create a scope for each subclass.”
You can’t.
“What popovers should I use?”
We’ve used at least these two before:
“What recurring billing system should I use?”
We’ve had good luck with BrainTree and Recurly.
form_for functionality.
“Are there any good enum gems that work with Rails 3.2?”
Try simple_enum. But watch out: by default it will take your array of string values and store the numeric indices in the database. To avoid having to migrate your existing data, you can pass it a hash:
as_enum :status, :pending => "pending", :active => "active"
“And… clap.”
A fun thing to try at standup: get everyone to clap once simultaneously without counting down.
“pg gem version 0.12.2 seems to be leaving connections open sometimes after our application server is dead. This results in transactions that never finish. Anyone know what’s up?”
“In an android web browser, if I have an autocomplete menu, and I click on one of the items, the click is registered on that item, but also seems to pass through to the elements behind it. For instance, a different text input was behind it, and became focused.”
“Yep, that bug sucks.” “The world may never know.”
Fixnum’s [] operator works! According to the ruby docs
“Bit Reference—Returns the nth bit in the binary representation of fix, where fix is the least significant bit.”
# 2:Fixnum in binary is 10, right? So…
2[0] = 0
2[1] = 1
Also:
a = 0b11001100101010
30.downto(0) do |n| print a[n] end
produces:
0000000000000000011001100101010
innotop innotop is a ‘top’ clone for MySQL with more features and flexibility than similar tools. It’ll let you do all sorts of dangerous things to your database! Have fun!!
Parse.com apparently accepts job applications via API! Check it out at https://parse.com/jobs#api
jQuery and the resize event – If you trigger a resize even on any object other than the window, it will not trigger the binding on that element. It will, however, trigger any resize bindings you have on window.
Did you commit to git under the wrong author’s name and email? Use
--ammend --reset-author after committing, but before pushing (unless you want a pain in the tuchus)
mkdir foo
cd foo
git init
touch README
git config --global user.name "Santa Claus"
git config --global user.email "santa@claus.no"
git add .
git commit -m "Commit from Santa Claus"
git show
# commit e5f4ebe6c689ddbf4ff595855fec544da5d8ce01
# Author: Santa Claus <santa@claus.no>
# Oops! I'm not Santa Claus
git config --global user.name "Easter Bunny"
git config --global user.email "easter@bunny.cl"
git commit --amend --reset-author
git show
# commit d523479d487d04388972bea872913ffda734ef89
# Author: Easter Bunny <easter@bunny.cl>
Looking to game the system on Superbowl Game day? Check out Onsi’s Super Square http://supersquare.heroku.com/ stats app for your Squares pool.
Time works normally, however DateTime will round to the nearest second. You have been warned“What’s going on with Facebooker and :class/:class_name_?”
Normally, in an ActiveRecord class definition you can use :class_name to change the class of an association.
has_many :foos, :class_name => 'Bar'
With Facebooker installed, one project found that their project was able to use :class
has_many :foos, :class => 'Bar'
When Facebooker was removed, it all blew up. No one had a solid answer as to why this worked in the first place.
“How do can we tell if our app’s email has been marked as spam like Campaign Monitor claim to do? How else can I get spam reports?”
*”Does anyone know to get this info from ISPs?”
Services like Return Path can give you aggregate reports, but not specifics.
All other suggestions were vague and/or said “Contact the ISP.”
*”How do I sign up for Heroku with a Google Group email?”
Allow non-member emails. You want to do this before you sign up, because some Pivots have reported that they could not get a second confirmation message to be sent.
model.clear() after every test run, their tests go from 20 seconds to over 100 seconds. Someone suggested the silent: true option, to suppress the change events that clear triggers.lis”Or rather, they do, but only after hovering over the list. The common wisdom is that this has been broken in IE for a long time.
No suggestions.
Everyone is using the ugly regex approach. Are there mail gems that handle this?